Sequoyah and the Birth of Written Cherokee

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In a world where written language is commonplace, it's easy to forget the profound impact of developing a writing system.…

Language Stories: Darwin and the Birth of Ethnolinguistics

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The narrative of Charles Darwin's voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, while famous for its contributions to evolutionary biology, is seldom…

Language Stories: “Up With This, I Will Not Put”

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In the annals of linguistic anecdotes, few stories are as enduring, entertaining or illuminating as the exchange attributed to the…

Language Stories: The Great Emu War of Languages

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Among the myriad anecdotes about languages, none encapsulates the eccentricity and wonder of linguistic evolution quite like the story of…

Language Stories: The Great ‘Eskimo Snow Words’ Debate

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Among the many charming anecdotes in the world of linguistics, the 'Eskimo Snow Words' story holds a position of considerable…

The Tower of Babel and the Mystical Roots of Linguistic Diversity

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The story begins in a place shrouded in antiquity, a fertile landscape between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the cradle…

Cracking the Code: The Fascinating Journey of Deciphering Hieroglyphs

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From the enigmatic scribbles painted on cave walls by early humans, to the complex codes employed by modern computer programmers,…

The Role of Portuguese in the Age of Exploration

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From the 15th to the 17th century, a period known as the Age of Exploration, or the Age of Discovery,…

Archaic Portuguese Words: A Journey through Literature

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In the kaleidoscopic world of language evolution, words ebb and flow, surge, and retreat like the waves of an ocean.…

How Does Machine Translation Work?

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If you've ever used an online tool to translate a sentence from one language to another, you've experienced machine translation…

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